One of the seven
angels (2010)
Bass clarinet and computer
Durata approx. 10 min
Music by Stefan Klaverdal
Cello Score
Bass Clarinet Score
(pdf for download)
This is a meditation. In several related pieces using the same
technique, I have tried to maintain a sense of exaltation or extreme happiness,
but to balance them I wanted to compose a slow-evolving piece, a ballade. It is
nevertheless for me a very positive piece, although in a more introvert way.
The piece
relates to the quote from the Book of Revelation on the previous page (and in
the title), and is a free interpretation of it.
The piece was
composed to Mattias Eklund
First
performed by Mattias Eklund
at Malm Academy of Music 2010
Duration: approx. 10 min
See darkness covers
the earth
Choir and cello
Durata approx. 10 min
Music by Stefan Klaverdal
In a
previously composed piece for bass clarinet and later cello and computer, I
found inspiration to do a reconstruction and add a layer of a choir. That is
this piece.
The
original was titled “one of the seven angels” and is a quote from the Book of
Revelation. In that piece I wanted to compose a slow-evolving piece, a ballade,
it became
for me a very positive piece, although in a more introvert way.
“See,
darkness covers the earth” is actually a series of other quotes that the first
title refer to in various ways. The bible is
interesting in that way, that many texts
actually
are referring to other, older ones to give credibility to the newer.
It turns out that the references to
me felt very contemporary and had to do with the current
trends in
society and that meant that I could both recompose something old, use new old
texts that referred to an old piece of mine and construct a very contemporary
and
important piece that may both say something about our time and give hope for a
better future.
The
original piece was composed to Mattias Eklund
First performed by Mattias Eklund
at Malmö Academy of Music 2010
This
version was made for Johan Magnus Sjöberg and Mattias Rodrick in 2017. Duration: approx. 10 min
Text:
See,
darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples, Ezia
60:2
Yet I am
not silenced by the darkness,
by the thick darkness that covers my face. Job 23:17
...the
people living in darkness have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the
shadow of death a light has dawned.” Mattew
4:16
All texts
from NIV
Original quote:
Revelation 21:9-14
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls
full of the seven last plagues came
and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the
Lamb." And he carried
me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the
Holy City, Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and
its brilliance was
like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It
had a great, high wall
with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates
were written the names
of the twelve tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east,
three on the north,
three on the south and three on the west. The wall of the city had
twelve foundations,
and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Book of Revelation 21:9-14,
New International Version